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Daniel Stein, Interpreter finalist of Kulturhuset Stadsteatern prize
NEW RELEASE: Yakhina's TRAIN TO SAMARKAND in Romania and Bosnia
Yakhina's novel is a finalist of the 2021 Prix Médicis
Yakhina's novel longlisted for the Prix Médicis
Guzel Yakhina longlisted for the 2021 European Literature Prize
Natalya Semenova wins the Art Newspaper Russia Prize
NEW RELEASE: My Father's Letters. Correspondence from the Soviet GULAG in English
NEW RELEASES: Ulitskaya's JUST THE PLAGUE in Russia, Hungary, Germany, and France
March 5, 2021: www.elkost.com is back
ELKOST website is off for maintenance
ELKOST agency at the 2019 Frankfurt book fair
Guzel Yakhina´s US tour, May 2019
Bucharest University confers honorary doctorate on Ulitskaya
JUST PUBLISHED: Yuri Buida´s Cool-Blue Blood in Arabic
JUST PUBLISHED: Ludmila Ulitskaya's Kukotsky Case in Czech Republic

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Featured titles

LEAD ME, BLIND MAN, a novel by Vladislav Otroshenko (2007)

Rights sold: Russia – Culturnaya Revolutzia, AST

A biopic novel dedicated to the famous Russian playwright Alexander Sukhovo-Kobylin (1817-1903). A rich aristocrat who often travelled, Sukhovo-Kobylin was arrested, prosecuted and tried for seven years in Russia for the murder of his French mistress Louise-Simone Dimanche, a crime of which he is nowadays generally believed to have been innocent. Based on his personal experiences, Sukhovo-Kobylin wrote a trilogy of satirical plays about the prevalence of bribery and other corrupt practices in the Russian judicial system of the time.

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Three Characters in Search of Love and Immortality, a novel by Olga Medvedkova (2020)

Rights sold: Russia - NLO

Shortlisted for the 2021 Andrei Bely Award
Finalist of the 2021 NOS Award
Longlisted for the 2021 Piatigorsky Award

The three characters of the title are the central characters of three separate stories, united only by the title of the book – and yet… In the afterword to the book Medvedkova writes:

"What do they have in common? At first sight nothing... three stories, three epochs, three different countries; three ways of life, thought, feelings; three modes of narrative, proper to those countries and to those times.  

 A medieval princess is for some unknown reason taken somewhere, and she finds herself in a totally different world, in a Renaissance Italy, and there she meets with…

In mid-eighteenth century a smart widow conducts, deftly and tastefully, her publishing business in a provincial French town. Everything follows a well-thought-out plan and suddenly…

A Polish philologist, born in London...

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